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Earlier this summer, I had an experience where a collection that I was creating metadata for had a really strong emotional impact on me. It felt really significant, and made me think about the ways that I relate to collections that I work with. I tweeted about the experience at the time, and I’ve collected…

I tweeted about this a little earlier, but it stayed in my mind for a while today, so I thought it deserved a fuller exploration. This is all very sketchy and not fully thought-out, but it’s something I’ve thought about before and don’t have any easy answers for. I spent this morning curled with a…